Platinum Edition Using XHTML™, XML, and Java™ 2
by Eric Ladd, Jim O'Donnell, Mike Morgan, Andrew H. Watt
Know Your Audience
Web site design should be driven by audience considerations. It doesn't matter how powerful a server you have, how skilled an ASP programmer you are, or how flashy your graphics are if your message is lost on the end user. If you retain just one concept from this chapter, let it be that you keep your audience uppermost in your mind during the design process.
Audience characteristics can fall into many categories. Because most sites must be designed to provide maximum audience appeal, this chapter looks at two broad, yet important, categories:
How will users move through the information? A Web site is different from a single Web page in that a user can visit many major sections within a site. By developing an awareness of how ...
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